Coffee-Ring Phenomenon Explained in New Theory (image)

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Despite a decent amount of server space and speed, assistant professor of mechanical engineering Hassan Masoud, center, his doctoral student Saeed Jafari Kang, right, and post-doctoral fellow Vahid Vandadi opted to write out their many equations long-hand, on dozens of very large pieces of newsprint paper as they modelled a more accurate look at coffee-ring droplet deposition.

Credit

Photo by Mike Wolterbeek, University of Nevada, Reno.

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